I’m not working on any legislation. I’m only trying to point out who is causing this pain so you can consider redirecting your anger to the right place. FWIW I do tip every single time but I do honestly wonder if I am just helping to perpetuate an unfair system.

I support workers getting a fair wage, full stop. Nice try pointing the blame away from employers who pay shit wages, they definitely need the focus off of them to perpetuate this system.

Employers paying shitty wages are punishing workers, this is the source of your complaint. If workers got a fair wage to begin with, you wouldn’t give a shit about tipping. But employers pay a shit wage and have successfully got people like you to blame and shame customers instead of them. If you think this will resolve by arguing with the customers that aren’t subsiding the wages, well, good luck with that.

The employer is the one withholding the money earned, the customer is simply paying the price that is advertised. The employer is the one that is exploiting the cheap labor, and if the labor looks to the customer to fix it it’s not going to work out.

Why do you give the employer a pass and blame the customer?

We’ll see if they post a profit or not but if they do then your source was probably an AI hallucination.

Anthropic is expected to post a profit next quarter, it may prohibitively expensive to run but that doesn’t mean it can’t be profitable. But who knows, maybe they won’t.

They did block the funding cuts in the longest shutdown the country has seen (so far). I was disappointed in the cuts but Dems were running out of options, Republicans were talking about getting rid of the filibuster, which they will do if Dems block them for too long. Ending the shutdown allowed for the vote on the Epstein files. It also hung the consequences of the cuts on the current administration while also making a statement that the Dems were against it. If they had held out, it’s likely they would lose even more power. Let’s face it, in the current political climate the Dems have a very shitty hand. Direct the hate where it belongs: Republicans.

I am pretty amazed at the hate and negativity towards Dems. They condemned the murder that happened and nothing but hate in this thread. Dems do not have a majority in any branch of government, what exactly can they do? They look weak because they actually do not have any power. Instead of directing the hate towards people calling victims domestic terrorists the hate is directed towards the only allies we have government.